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NG S03 E15 - How to Cure the Common Vampire

And this will be the last episode of Night Gallery as well as probably the last post on this account.

Hum this is a one minute long thing in which a man is pointing a stake to a vampire's heart and asks if his assistant is sure, and the assistant answers "Well it couldn't hurt"

And that is the end of Night Gallery, folks.

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NG S03 E15 - Hatred Unto Death

We start with a couple of white people in a safari in "Africa" again. They meet a group of indigenous people who ended up trapping a gorilla.

OMG THE GORILLA IS A PERSON IN A SUIT!!!! I AM DYING!!!!

I can't believe we are gonna end this great series on two consecutive episodes of white people in "Africa".

Anyway the guy decides to take the gorilla away to try to discover why they hate each other without having ever met before.

Oh shit look at this montage of the gorilla thinking about all the creatures in nature and then the creations of human hands that destroy such nature.

So the gorilla only hates the husband, not the wife. And they theorize that there is some blood memory from past lives involved. There is this bizarre scene where the gorilla takes her wedding ring from her and then escapes and attacks her.

Anyway the husband and the gorilla kill each other.

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NG S03 E14 - The Doll of Death

This takes place in "Africa" like generic place in "Africa" where most people are black but the rich white people come to make parties.

There is this sort of free spirit-ish white girl getting married to a man she doesn't love. The man who she is in love with comes back to take her away from the party, and the groom is angry of course, and decides to use a voodoo doll against him.

The girl knows exactly what is happening although no one believes her.

So she resorts to her African friend, but he had already tried to help and ended up being killed. Of course, the sacrificial n word trope strikes again.

She starts to act as if she ran away from her lover back to her groom to try to stop him. But he asks her to end the voodoo doll as a proof. She uses this moment to trade the ring of her lover on the doll for his, and he himself finishes the doll, killing himself.

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NG S03 E12 - Death on a Barge

Rod says this episode is a vampire story but not to conjure Bela Lugosi or Chris Lee. I just mention this because I find it neat, and also proves he has watched the Hammer films so every time the mood reminds me of hammer it isn't a coincidence.

OH THIS IS DIRECTED BY LEONARD NIMOY???

Oh it takes place on a port, I love port creatures.

Everything is shot in this soft haze, and it has a siren like seductress.

Ok so the boy and the seductress ar actually in love, she can't be out during daytime, and she says her father is the opposite. Yeah in the boat where she lives there is a one legged captain.

Anyway there is this other girl who is in love with this boy so she goes to investigate the boat and finds the vampire girl.

So she can't go to him because she can't cross the water, but since the my are draining the canal and once it's drained she promises to go to him.

I... is this an allegory for homosexuality??? It's the way he says "I knew all those stories about you but I love tou" and "I can't go through with it tonight, because I'm afraid but I do love you" it's very gay?

But then he decides to go back to his girlfriend, it's like the 80's gay horror films where the gay evil force is defeated and the twink has a girlfriend, you know.

No question this is about gays. But her father kills her just when they are about to do it.

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NG S03 E11 - Something in the Woodwork

A lady is having a man over to fix somethings in her house, and she asks him to try to unlock the attic where a man died in the past, but he is very hesitant to open it.

TAKE A SHOOOT!

Oh she wants to fuck the ghost? Good for her! Am I gonna have to make a ghostfucker tag here? It's the second time in this series that a woman wants to fuck a ghost.

Anyway she has her ex husband for dinner that night and he rejects her.

The ghost is a shadow in the woodworks of the house, and it just wants to be left alone, but she asks him to kill her ex husband.

OH A HANDHELD CAMERA! THATS NOT USUAL IN THIS SERIES!

SO THE GHOST KILLS THE EX AND TRADES PLACES WITH HIM! AND THEN HE DECIDES TO KILL HER FOR NOT LEAVING HIM IN THE PEACE OF THE WOODWORK!

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NG S03 E10 - The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes

Oh this is about boxing.

A boxing champion is transported to a mansion without any knowledge about what is happening.

So hum, this rich guy wants to fight everyone who is good at boxing. His wife advises him to lose the match on purpose but he refuses.

So they fight and the champion kills the husband because no one steps into the fight to stop him. Then the dead man's body turns to an old body and disappear. Now the champion will be doomed to fight forever until he loses.

So a bit like A Game of Pool basically but with box.

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NG S03 E09 - She'll be Company for You

LEONARD NIMOY????

Oh there is a very nice cut from him in the funeral to him at home.

So his wife died and the wife's best friend gives him a cat.

He starts hallucinating that the cat is a big cat destroying everything, at the sound of a bell that someone offscreen is ringing.

Finally he starts going mad, takes a knife and goes after the cat. Unable to get it, he gives up and kills himself.

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NG S03 E08 - Finnegan's Flight

Burgess Meredith is an inmate in a prison, he keeps his head on the clouds and is bullied by his mates.

The jail psychiatrist is trying to understand why he is so imaginative, so he allows another inmate to hypnotize him, and they realize he is exceptionally suggestible, to the point that if he dips his fingers in cold water believing it to be hot, his fingers will get blistered.

The next day they hypnotize him to believe he is flying on a plane, because he is fascinated by them. But he flies too high, starts losing air and get his skin burned. But when they tell him to come back down he crashes the whole room explodes with his crash.

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NG S03 E07 - Fright Night

A writer and his wife are about to move into the house of his recently deceased cousin who was really into the occult.

Ah the effect of the creepy moving chest is really cool, very Cormanesque.

He starts to walk around the house in his sleep and words appear in his type writer that he never wrote.

OH MY GOT WE HAVE A MAN SLUT! ALERT ALERT WE HAVE A MAN SLUT IN THIS EPISODE! A hunky guy with fluffy hair and porn mustache wearing a tight stretchy tank top comes to take the chest away.

OMG! Ok so the haunting of the house starts making the couple very irritable with each other and they fight horribly one day culminating at the husband almost pouring boiling milk down her throat, it was horrendous and I almost had a heart attack.

So they realize that it's Halloween and a monstrous version of the dead cousin comes for the trunk that came back mysteriously.

But the next day the trunk is there again. So they decide to leave the house.

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NG S03 E06 - The Other Way Out

An important man arrives from vacation and starts receiving mysterious letters with instructions that he fearfully obeys without question.

I missed the explanation and I'm too lazy to go back and rewatch it. But he was captured by an old man, apparently he wronged the old man in some way and now he has to be chased by furious dogs through the woods.

He finds a way inside a place safe from the dogs but is now trapped. He has to find a way out. He ends up inside a cellar where he will starve to death, but there is another way out, a bullet and a gun.

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NG S03 E05 - Smile, Please

A man is showing an explorer the castle of a vampire but, surprise HE is the vampire!

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NG S03 E05 - You Can Come Up Now, Mrs Millikan

An eccentric experimental scientist holds a disastrous demonstration of a theory and his peers already doubtful of him now confirm his lack of capacity.

The scientist has a wife who is very forgetful about everything but he is very patient with her and they seem to love each other very much.

Ok but if you know your wife always forgets her duties why would you put so many important tasks on her hands, that's also your fault.

Anyway he giver her something to drink for an experiment, it causes her to start dying and he plans on bringing her back to life after. Why is it always the bringing back to life thing? Maybe we should start experimenting on people to make them care more about the pain of others or to not want to be capitalistic anymore, that seems more useful than bringing the dead back to life.

Anyway the nephew of the couple calls the police. And the man is really confident in his experiment, but the lady just stays dead. So he kills himself.

Of course, she then finally returns to life but she was late because she forgot.

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NG S03 E04 - Spectre in Tap Shoes

Take a shot!

A woman arrives to her house to find her tap dancing sister hanging from a rope. She starts to have nightmares about her.

Stuff around her house change without her interference and she believes her sister is there. And during the night she hears music and tap dancing.

TAKE ANOTHER SHOT!

She is really feeling guilty for not having been around to help her sister. And she thinks this is why she is being haunted.

She starts to smoke which she never did but her sister used to.

ANOTHER MIRROR SHOT!

Ok, one night she is compelled to put on her sister's tap costume and go to the dancing room where her sister killed herself.

Yeah! I knew it! She was being gaslit by the guy who wanted to buy the house from her to force her to kill herself, it turns out her sister didn't kill herself either. He had an affair with her and she kept receipts to blackmail him, so he killed her and tried to buy the house to find the receipts.

But still there are unexplained things so she still believes to be haunted by her sister.

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NG S03 E03 - Rare Objects

Guy eating alone at an empty restaurant and being an ass to the poor waiter.

TAKE A SHOT!

I guess the guy is a mafia guy?

Apparently his wife framed him.

He wants to get out of the mafia so he consults with a doctor that has a collection of rare objects.

The deal is that he disappear into a new life but the doctor gets everything he owns. He has doubts and says he wants to think better about it but the doctor drugged him.

What do you know, he uses a drug that keeps the person alive and young forever and keeps important historical figures in cages.

I guess I should know the name of the guy, he was probably famous.

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NG S03 E02 - The Girl with the Hungry Eyes

A photographer and a model have sort of a symbiotic relationship where he doesn't allow anyone to photograph her and no one can see their sessions.

But the advertiser for a company wants to see her.

Meanwhile a bunch of people are dying seemingly of heart attacks but the police suspects murder. And the model always meets the victims on the night of their death.

She eats their life essence in a kiss. I LOVE THE EFFECTS ON THE EYES!

HOLY SHIT THIS IS ABOUT CONSUMERISM?????

She represents the consumerism that feeds man's greed through propaganda and feeds on their souls to survive!!!!

I need to remark on the influence of Blow Up on this episode's style. Beautiful.

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NG S02 E22 - Die Now, Pay Later

Omg, I'm already laughing, an undertaker decides to do a clearance sales, to get rid of the coffins and urns he has and get a new collection.

And the whole town starts to die.

So there is a rumor that the undertaker is a warlock and that is why people started to die as he started the sale.

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NG S02 E22 - Witches' Feast

Oh what a classic look for the witches! They don't do them like they used to anymore.

AGNES MOORHEAD IS THAT YOU?! ICON!

Anyway it's one of the short funny ones. They are brewing a potion waiting for their friend to arrive. She finally does and turns out she was out to bring sandwiches for the other ones.